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Old 06-22-2012, 12:51 AM   #12
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lol, I like the pun, Deshy!
The term "world" isn't a fixed phenomena in Buddha speak, it seems. The planet earth is pretty solid but it seems we create our personal world through the mind in the present moment.

For example, when I am hungry the world seems to be full or empty of food depending on where I go. When I stop being hungry the world of food vanishes for that time (I may see a fruit, but it no longer appeals to me as it did at lunch time when I was craving food). Sometimes after eating a lot, I feel aversion at the food which I earlier craved. The "world" changes, perception remains pretty much the same, but my desires and aversion change the way I perceive the "world".

SN 12.44 Loka Sutta: The World
The Blessed One said: "And what is the origination of the world? Dependent on the eye & forms there arises eye-consciousness. The meeting of the three is contact. From contact as a requisite condition comes feeling. From feeling as a requisite condition comes craving. From craving as a requisite condition comes clinging/sustenance. From clinging/sustenance as a requisite condition comes becoming. From becoming as a requisite condition comes birth. From birth as a requisite condition, then aging & death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair come into play. This is the origination of the world. What da ya reckon, I am still out of this world?

This is a basic example, subject to change, but we can use our imagination to imagine how the world would look if we had no craving/aversion/ignorance or sufffering. Suddenly my world would not be full of things I need or don't like, it would be full of objects of no specific value. The world then changes.

What actually changes is our karma, in the present moment. Because what was once important to us, ceases to be so, and hence suffering changes and so too our renewed karma from that moment onwards.

What do you think?
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